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You're always there. Because this is the rumour mill, often a preferred read rather than actual news stories based on facts and inside knowledge.

You know, the stuff that us
internet copy-and-pasters journalists actually pick up our hard-earned for finding out.

Maybe it's because football fans basically exist on hope.

It's their lifeblood. If they don't have hope, then what do they have?

They'd sooner live in a world where they might be signing some big name, where there is a possibility of a major star arriving, rather can face up to the humdrum reality their club don't have any more money left for transfers and they'll probably end up selling somebody soon anyway.

So let's get your hopes up by listing what everybody else is suggesting may be happening.

First to Italy. The Daily Star, via FCInterNews (no, us neither), are suggesting Liverpool target (apparently) Dries Mertens is not leaving Napoli.

“Will Mertens stay at Napoli? Yes, I think so,” says the player's agent Soren Lerby, who himself was a fine player for Denmark.